Love Languages (BY: Book 2)

Get To Work, Woman

Lena's POV

Those past few days have been rough for me. I was still tired, and my appetite is still not coming back so no need to say that Stef is on my back all the time. She tries to be patient, I know she does, but she's very frustrated with me, as I am with her. I just wish she would leave me alone at lunch time and diner time, and breakfast, God breakfast is even worse. But I have to admit that if the roles were reverse, I would have probably been on her back as well, and maybe even more than she does.

After our first night, sleeping into each other's arms, I respected her boundaries, and I didn't insist to touch her or be close to her when we sleep the following nights. She avoided my usual kiss on the lips a few times so I didn't try that again either, however I make it a point to kiss her cheek every morning because either she likes it or not, I'm still her wife, I still love her, and I'm still going to show it to her, even if it means that it's just with a little kiss on her cheek in the morning.

What hurt the most I think is when I tell her that I love her as I do every time she's going to go out for work or anything else, and that she doesn't respond. That is... that is a bitch honestly because she used to tell me that she loves me all the time and I took it for granted, now I'm literally dying to hear it...

I'm off work for a month and even though Stef has to work, she comes back home at lunch to see if I actually eat, and she eats with me as well to encourage me.

Today is no different as she came back home with surprisingly burgers and fries which she rarely does for she's more of a pasta kind of girl, but she knows how much I love them for I always find an excuse to go get some burgers when we're out with the kids.

"Hey, look what I got for you." she says as she walks toward me, and I smile softly at her because she is cute.

"You don't even like burgers." I say for I'm not hangry and I can't help but complain about everything she wants me to eat.

"Not all the time, but once in a while I do like it, so let's go sit." She says, motioning me to go first as I look at her, and sigh deeply for every day it's the same torture. I do eat a little more each day, but I'm still not enjoying it like I used to. I don't even understand why. At first, I thought that it was because Stef basically left me, but now she's here, yet, I'm still struggling, why is that?

We enter the kitchen and take sit as Stef is disposing everything on the table. Of course, she took my favorite burger and my favorite sauce and everything.

"How was work this morning?" I ask Stef as she unwrap her food as I do the same.

"Pretty good. I had to chase a guy who stole cigarettes. I still got it, he was young, but he didn't do nine feet." She says proudly as I smile because I love that she still loves her job, even though I hate it still at times.

"You love when you get to tackle them on the ground, huh?" I say, for I can see the sparks in her eyes when she tells me about that kind of case. For her that's the easy part of the job, the lightest if I can put it like that. What she doesn't like is the cases involving children or assault, those I know can drive her crazy.

"Well... okay yes, I do. I know it's bad, but it's so exciting, and some of them really deserve it, you know." she says as I shake my head at her and she smiles at me, biting in her burgers.

"You know what to do after you unwrap your food, right?" she says teasingly as I sigh, losing my smile a little.

"Come on Lena, at least the half, okay?" she says, like she always does as I look at my burgers and fries with no desire to eat at all.

"Maybe drink something first then." she tries again, as I was getting frustrated.

"Okay, would you stop talking to me like I'm a child, please?" I say looking right into her eyes as she put down her burger.

"I'm not Lena. I'm just trying to encourage you that's all. Because either you like it or not, you have to eat to get better."

"Last time I've checked you're not my mom, you don't get to talk to me like that." I say while I can see her frustration creeping in as well.

"You know what? You're right. I'm not your mom, Danna's your mom, maybe I should call her." she says as at this, I become even angrier, and try very, very hard not to scream.

"Stef, I'm telling you, don't you dare do that, you hear me? I can't deal with her right now, I really can't." I say very seriously.

"That's what I thought. You'll have to do with me then." she says, grabbing her burger back to keep eating it as I sigh, looking at my food again.

"Come on. Try a fry." Stef says in a softer way as she picks up a fry to bring it to my mouth.

"Aaaa..." she says opening her mouth which was the most ridiculous thing ever that makes me giggle and then I look at the fry and finally open my mouth to make her happy as she gently put the fry in my mouth so I could eat it. She smiles so wide at me, that I let her feed me a few fries again, just to see that gorgeous smile again.

"Stef, you're not even eating yourself." I say, for I wanted to distract her away from me, and make her eat because she's working as well.

"Well then get to work woman. Feed me too." She says, surprising me a little for we don't do much together, most of the time she avoids spending time with me except to eat, and that is no fun at all, but this... this can actually be a nice moment.

So I grab fries and feed her as she keeps doing the same thing until we couldn't even shew because it makes us giggles.

"Okay, okay! Harder! Now we have to feed each other the burger BUT, at the exact same time." She says, very amused and excited.

"Oh my God, that's going to make a mess." I giggle as she smiles even wider.

"Oh come on, grab that... ready? Go!" she says as we both tried to make the other eat a big bite and of course salades and sauces are dropping everywhere making us laugh as we did it a few time until we couldn't even breath anymore, and I could feel like I was breathing again for that's the Stef I fell so deeply in love with, that silly side of her that we don't see often because of how hard life is sometimes.

Then when we finished our burgers, Stef started laughing even harder at my face that is probably full of sauce around my mouth while her face was pretty good.

"Hey, see I'm a better feeder that you are!" I defend as she continues to laugh but she also grad some tissue to come wipe my mouth so gently as we calm down a little. Having her so close to me, always do things to my body as I stare at her soft lips that I miss terribly. Then I look into her eyes, and she drown her gaze into mine and at that moment the time stopped... I want to kiss my wife so bad...

"Ice cream for dessert?" she almost whispers as she put one of my curls behind my ear before pulling away a little.

"Will we keep feeding each other?" I ask, clearly taking advantage of the situation now. I can see that her heart is melting right now, and I know it won't last, but as long as I can be like this with her, I want to.

"Does that make it easier for you?" she asks softly, still looking into my eyes.

"Yes, it does actually." I say honestly for it's true. She managed to make me eat the whole burger. I have still a few fries left, but still, I enjoyed the meal which haven't happen in a long time. Hopefully this is the first step for my appetite to come back.

"Okay then." she says before turning, standing up to get some ice cream from the fridge as I smile to myself...